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DUVET

Yes, DUVET was the Wordle answer on March 22, 2023 (Wordle #641).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /d(j)uːˈveɪ//ˈd(j)uːveɪ/

Noun

A quilt or usually flat cloth bag with a filling (traditionally down) and usually an additional washable cover, used instead of blankets; often called a comforter or quilt, especially in US English.

“He pulled the thick duvet over his head to block out the morning light.”

Noun

Short for duvet cover.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 22, 2023 (#641).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 22, 2023 (#641).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How DUVET performs as a guess

DUVET is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,011 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

D___T D in the 1st position and T in the 5th position D__E_ D in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in DUVET.

First-turn measures

All four describe DUVET used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.51 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How DUVET performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#8,011 Rank among openers
Opening with DUVET left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,011 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
792
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
34%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
D U V E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches DUVET in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

DUVET can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

518 answers
330 answers
171 answers
151 answers
101 answers
94 answers
92 answers
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14 answers
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10 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for DUVET; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

D2U1V4E1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SALON SNARE SITAR SOLAR TARTE SONAR

Strategy after playing DUVET

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DUVET.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing DUVET:

22% chance
Suggested:
SALON
14% chance
Suggested:
SNARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SITAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

21.8% →
SALON 5.90 bits
13.9% →
SNARE 5.34 bits
7.2% →
SITAR 4.95 bits
6.4% →
SOLAR 4.54 bits
4.3% →
TARTE 4.86 bits
4.0% →
SONAR 4.95 bits
3.9% →
SLUNG 4.84 bits
3.7% →
SONLY 3.88 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 5.02 bits
2.7% →
LEARE 4.69 bits

Research on DUVET

Game-tree analysis and word research for DUVET, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with DUVET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,636 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with DUVET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it DOOVIHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, DUVET is a kind of comfort.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
DUVET sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 92 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I sleep with a duvet.
© tatoeba.org contributor Teangloir (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I use a duvet in winter.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).